Package: smbfs Version: 2:3.2.3-1 Hi all,
I'm no expert on samba/cifs but something has changed recently. I've used smbfs for mounting filesystems of other machines on my LAN for years, with no problems once permissions are all sorted out. In the past year or so I've noticed dozens of files appearing on my console in green (executable) - things like .txt files, which should never get +x. I've traced this to samba. Now, whenever I copy/move a file onto a mounted smbfs filesystem, or create a new file on such a filesystem, the file automatically gets permissions 755. Presumably the permissions of new files are controlled by a umask setting somewhere - I can't see one on the manual page of mount.cifs, so maybe it's done in the samba server config. But why would existing files have their attributes changed when they're copied or moved onto a smbfs filesystem? This seems to be a bug - surely samba should not mess with file attributes unless the user explicitly tells it to do so. Sorry if I've missed something obvious, Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
